deciding rush's next it's the final day of voting on changes to the constitution we look at what's being offered bring you reaction throughout the day. i think because the current constitution is out of date i think it is nonsense according to all legal logical and ethical norms and. all of that. and that. also ahead on the program there is intense scrutiny for germany meat processing industry. working on living conditions for them in the migrant. modern slavery

in the. u.k. another human trafficking ring with authorities saying the victims are increasingly from eastern europe. to be just really. pulled me. one minute past 10 am 11 pm in seoul 5 in the evening right here in moscow this wednesday july the 1st welcome to r.t. international. it's the final day of a week of voting that's been taking place right across russia on proposed changes to the country's constitution while many have already heard their say by voting online president putin today a national holiday to

a lot of voters who haven't yet done so the chance to cast their ballot. let's go through it it's a package of more than $140.00 amendments many things social legal and economic and t's to the constitution one enshrines the minimum wage will not be lower than the cost of living another secures an adjustment to maintain the value of pensions and allowances also tougher requirements for civil servants such as bombing key officials from having foreign citizenship or bank accounts are brought there also some proposals seen by some controversial. would be classified solely as a union between a man and a woman secular state but there are also some political changes proposed chiefly concerning presidential term limits the moment a president can serve 2 consecutive terms take some time on it and then come back

for more but if the constitutional reforms go through then presidential tenures would be limited to 2 terms in total and the most contentious amendment is the so-called 0 of ludmer putin's terms allowing him the possibility to run for another 2 terms if he wants to. tailor our correspondent is in central moscow keeping a close eye on developments for us just looking at the time polls will close will be in the far east on the 1st results i believe some of them are filtering through how's that shipping up at this stage. while just one glance at the map will tell you how fast a terra chip bowls the russian federation is with numerous times zones and that fled in terror so whilst in moscow the capital devoting is still underway in the

far east polls have placed on the results are starting to trickle in and what that indicating is that around 71 percent of people voted in favor. of the constitutional amendments was 27 percent so today against a not soft around 1.8 percent of the votes are not regions have been counted so quite a solid figure and that very close to what independent pollsters were predicting last week but again the far east is just one part of the picture so we're going to have to wait and see whether that photo russians feel the same way what is clear though is that people even today as the cause of the truck stops running down are still very actively. so the tunnel is actually up 15 percent since end of day yesterday we're looking at around now 60 percent so people rushing at the last minute to have that say in the future of this constitution you're just turned 60 is there any idea if people were actually going to the polls on one particular issue

or the group of the pocket jones it's known in this case. while that is why it's consensus here in russia that reform is necessary i mean the current constitution has been in place since 1993 and russia of course has drastically changed since that so people recognize the need for the document to be malleable and to take on new challenges. but that of course considering that there are $147.00 amendments on the table that was never going to be an easy decision especially since they are also going for a simple yes or no to the entire package and here the wind has picked up. but the one that has proved to be particularly controversial which is which was as you mentioned the one that concerns proximate putin about so-called searing out of his former tums which would allow him to get a blank slate and potentially in the future but let's hear what people have been

saying from all corners of the country on the amendments generally. i think that it's needed because the current constitution is out of date it is a modern time and even the view. as for this new. why have i come here to vote because i'm a citizen of russia and all of them men once in your i am not ok with them and went about 0 in out the presidential term absolutely do not agree with. i became familiar with all of the amendments in the constitution of. the most important to manage the prevalence of russian you know over international the head of the central election commission of said something about voting being like a meal deal you either take everything or you do not take it at all and i already do not like one dish in this meal deal so i will not take everything else i think it is nonsense according to all legal logical and ethical norms and i love my country and its think everything that is being done is right i am going with

pleasure to vote and i recommend everyone should do the same. so what could have swayed it full of those yes photos while it's the package of social i'm adamant that have really enjoyed widespread appeal of popularity things like ensuring that the a minimum wage never falls below the cost of living that the pensions are adjusted in line with inflation thought the financial support for no income families and things like enshrining traditional family values as well as preserving historical memory would be very popular among the more conservative sectors of society these are all things that really have an impact on the day to day nothing of the average russians what leads people to the polling stations speaking off as we wait for those fog that results to come in let's take a look at some of the more malted also in the case said that people have been voting at all across the country. but

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well allegations of ballot stuffing and other voting violations haue been circulating widely online all are being investigated with many already debunked as fake the electoral commission says that out of all the inquiries received only 2 percent or about possible offenses here's to all of them to electoral commission members have been suspended in st petersburg after a video emerged of the woman stuffing a ballot box box is no sealed are no longer used for voting investigation also is on her way elsewhere to journalists claim to vote twice both in person on the line

no others who also tried to admitted their efforts had failed at police are investigating those journalists over administrative offenses. voting twice is considered fraud on punishable with a fine. but it is the last day when russian citizens can count their vote and so somehow been pouring onto the streets to voice their concerns over the proposed changes one man was detained in central and petersburg but later released during a rally against the amendments another protest took place earlier today on red square here in moscow where protesters arrange their bodies on the ground to spotlight 2036 a year to which a lot of your putin's presidency could be extended if the constitutional amendments are adopted of course if he wants the those protesters were also detained but then later released as well. but we spoke to the cochairman of the team that drafted the

amendments he said just like many other countries are doing right now russia's foundation laws need modernizing. the world is changing right now is so fast and so constitutional laws like human rights and liberties are constantly expanding and evolving as well as the mechanisms for their protection many european countries france for example went through serious constitutional reforms in the last decade in italy had several attempts to amend its constitution as well. and even the constitution of the us is changing rapidly and substantially every single country chooses its constitutional model and the moderation rules for itself or look how many un the member states there are more than $100.00 but how many of them actually have full sovereignty in the sense the russian people understand in many of them are really capable of carrying out internal or external policy independently based on the interests of their own paypal how many indeed we are

introducing new restrictions on presidential term limits according to the new amendment the highest official will be able to serve no more than 2 terms overall and now look for example in germany is there any restriction for the chancellor who is the key figure in the german political system no there are no such restrictions and now let's take a look at great britain the position of prime minister the leader of the ruling party are there any restrictions on how many times one can be elected to preside over a government and essentially the executive of the country there are no such restrictions if there are a new politician to come and they will surely come to the federal parliament to the government and eventually to the presidency those politicians must share basic principles and so from this perspective this amendment is a guarantee that all of the achievements of the last 20 years won't be cancelled and the perception of the people is that this amendment is an additional guarantee for summits even the most important one that when

a new president will come and history won't be rewritten crimea won't be returned and no other decisions will be. that won't comply with people's expectations this is really very important and would be you aspect to today's goings on russian citizens abroad all across the world have been joining long queues in front of embassies to cast their ballots as well people in par as berlin of the european cities turned out to have their say on the possible changes to russia's constitution some of told us that they believe even if they don't live in russia currently they still have a duty to vote. so as we have been going through there's a long list of proposed changes in the package being voted on but it's just one element that's got much of the foreign media far out of. its parliament basically paving the way for vladimir putin to potentially stay on as russian president he's

the longest serving russian leader since joseph stalin a lot of your putin wants to stay in power even longer addressing lawmakers abdu words putin said he backed the amendment allowing him to seek another term in office but there are dozens of interesting lucian's that also be discussed and the one that caught my eye was on children the role of children and all fronts i explicitly mentioned in one of the constitutional a market which i think is worth while reflecting the russian federation of the u. 2020 is in many regards i would say in a different situation than was the country in 1903 when we compare. international circumstances but also of course the national economic and political situation the early ninety's were marked by the implosion of the soviet union marked by the down through the communists and. it was more about being effects of

the then the russian federation that we have. today i think there is a need for. meeting these new circumstances because a constitution is almost a reflection off a society and also off the circumstances of the countries it was in so did. didn't. they legislate follow meant in order to respond to do so new experiences i've given thought about online vaulting myself several times it's a global debate and i must admit speaking as a very personally i'm a bit old fashioned i've think it still makes sense the day of the vote to go out to go to the ballot box so you can dress up let's say school to discuss with your friends before adopted and tool to simply make it click on yourself up.

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extended to me fuck tree and surrounding time in the west of the country after a huge number of workers came down with infections there have been small right breaks in similar types of work places about scott unions on officials concerned over safety conditions for stuff peter all of us been looking into. germany was quite rightly praised for how it handled the initial wave of coronavirus now although it's dealing with something but hops a little more tricky isolated localized spikes of covert 19 we're on our way to a meat processing plant in the city of get it's law which has been the epicenter of one of those outbreaks over $1500.00 workers tested positive at this facility the factory is currently closed down with the workforce in quarantine since corona was confirmed a lockdown that was imposed on the local area last week has been extended by

a further 7 days the federal government's in its calling on people to be age this is feeling mentioned it's not a hard situation for many people the restrictions cause a burden in the chancellor thanks all people who take the situation with patients who follow the necessary restrictions they are all helping now to prevent the virus from spreading the reason for the extension of this local lock down is 100 cases of corona in the last week detected in people that have no connection whatsoever with this meat factory the working and living conditions of staff at the other 2 are have been brought under the microscope low paid workers from eastern europe often living in cramped conditions with social distancing is nigh on impossible being seen as the unfortunate catalyst for the spike people living in this area on top the their workers were forced to continue in these conditions during

a pandemic. management should have been more careful these are people who came here to work they should have been tested before they were hired but when the virus was already in the factory and you don't know who has it then you cannot stop it. we have guest workers from romania and sometimes they live 10 people in this same apartment they were. it's for nothing and that's the problem. they're blaming the meat factory but the virus is still everywhere one of the reasons could be that people are working there in close proximity without maintaining the necessary say distance officials in berlin and local governments say this is the responsibility of business owners. the company must have civil liability through behavior where people obviously do not abide by rules corporation took an entire region hostage it is currently being about he waited very carefully whether i'm against which rules the company has violated and where it can be held liable for those tasked with

looking after workers rights of buying the german government saying they're willing to open a dialogue on improving conditions they accuse perlin of being all talk no action they have already been enough in nonsense and promises who heard it all before but nothing ever happens the company operating this plant of refused all requests for comment when it comes to working conditions they cite but this isn't the only coded spike in germany right now.

this type of localized outbreak has been noticeably absent from germany's blue chip manufacturing the auto industry is back to. with the correct precautions being taken in a normal working week 1000 pigs assaulted here every day and while the low paid staff living in quality. may allow for cheap schnitzel it also provides coronavirus with the optimum conditions to spread peter all over r.t. good to see germany. there is a lot of focus right now on coming to terms with historical slavery but it's also something that causes very real suffering for victims today 10 people are currently

being sheltered after police found them living in a farm building in central england all had travelled from romania 4 people have been arrested on suspicion of human trafficking it's not an isolated problem either the church based charity the salvation army says it helped almost 10000 modern slavery victims between 201119 the originated from some 1009 countries recent years the biggest number came from albania and from vietnam modern slavery victims are being made to work in grueling factory or farm jobs as well as car washes and the sex industry one anonymous victim told the salvation army about his experience. or you meet fuck dory put to my car doors are shut your morning air. the image of us and just some. amount. you leave or don't usually put me. who. are on you cannot buy

a. plot solely. to get it are you not the. law. me more is some startling figures in 2014 the british home office estimated there were between 10 and 13000 potential slavery victims in the u.k. last year police reported around 5000 cases twice as many as the previous year in one of the largest cases ever brought to trial around $400.00 people were trafficked for forced labor from poland the director of anti trafficking and modern slavery at the salvation army say slavery is an issue not yet consigned to history . when somebody comes into our service we obviously need to assess and and support them you know with regard to the conditions they've been in you can see the physical signs of them back having been you know beaten they want to have bruising

and scarring from that to this is a physical disability of that but we also find that there's the emotional mental scarring as well on the whole they will be living in in has with multiple occupancy so the conditions are good to crowded in some cases there are a lot furnished in the right way that they haven't got here saying i think what's happened now is it's reminded people that you know we thought over 600 years ago through william wilberforce that the days of slavery it ended that happens you know there's still a ruthlessness still current here in modern slavery and i think it's really important that it's high nice in that you know we are living in a world and we're living in communities where next door to us that could be somebody who is kept captive in slavery. in hong kong over 300 people have been arrested so far under new protest laws i. a new wave of

demonstrations broke out just the day after china passed its controversial hong kong security law under the new rules those guilty of crimes such as secession collusion with foreign forces may face life in prison among those detained was a teenager who was seen leaving a hong kong independence. and over the us police have been clearing out the. autonomous zone in seattle you may know it better as charles charles it's so officers equipped with heavy weapons and protective gear move in before the raid protestors many of them armed world war and they could face arrest if they don't leave as a result dozens of demonstrators have been detained according to the police there's only a capital hole in the city has been occupied since june the residents there are being demanding the abolition of the police following the death of george lloyd's. we lost a friend this week at r.t.

his life was too full to do it justice we're just a few sentences so after the break the life and times of george watts is told to write it was season. thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision. every. complete. you know told a shot to kill me and i see how destroyed my life any screamed at me me me coming from my own even eat meat. if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military rape is a very very traumatizing thing to have happen but i've never seen trauma like i've

seen it from women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished to be offended by hand and almost 10 year career or chose very invested in and i gave that up to report a sex offender who was not even going to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of power and violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether that's a man or woman. you tryna be bold with yet you look.

at what else shows seem wrong. but all roles just don't hold. any old belief yet to shape out just they become educated and in gains from it equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart when she's to look for common ground. secret prisons are not usually what comes to mind when thinking about europe however even the most prosperous can be deceived we've in this 0 zone there were 2 view houses were allowed to leave prison was located only cia people had access to the story for investigators sure hell they uncovered the darkest dealings of the secret services but i mean one of the names there you go read nor in thought or nonsense. keithy maybe it's ornate yes or no for. crying for

justice on r.t. . george was made for radio and he excelled at it he would meet people from all walks of life from all over the world he would even meet one of the most historic military figures of modern times not bad for a farm boy from canada when i started working at sydney in part and broadcasting to the united states and canada there was a young lad very bright boy. i say boy because i was older than he very handsome boy victory and all in and he was.